Gettysburg, the Pivotal Battle of the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 1230313095
- ISBN-13
- 9781230313092
- Pages
- 52
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Robert K Beecham
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... Lincoln's Gettysburg Address At The Dedication Of The National Cemetery November 19,1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long re member what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. the end index index Alabama, regiments from, 234. Alexander, E. P. (General), 226, 230. Ames' brigade, 197, 200. Anderson, G. L., wounded, 180. Anderson's division, 103, 110, 158-156, 168, 171, 177. Antietam, battle of, 22. Appomattox, significance...
